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...yesterday's Harvard-Columbia women's tennis match were a fight, it would have been stopped after the first punch...
These students point out that the clubs are not only sexist, but also socially and financially elitist in that they select members through the closed "punch" system, give preference to children of alumni, and charge dues which not everyone can afford to pay. Since Schkolnick's complaint leaves these forms of elitism intact, many students don't think it deserves their support...
...Louis (95-67, NL East, first): So long, Jack Clark and hello, Bob Horner? This is not Japan, Big Bob (.327, 31 HR, 73 RBI in 93 Japanese games). The Cards will need some punch from Willie McGee and Tommy Herr (.263, 2 HR, 83 RBI). John Tudor (10-2) and the rest of the staff will have to keep the runs on the low side for the Cards to even think of repeating. Best player: McGee...
...shadowboxes with the empty aisle just darkened for takeoff: "It's like a fighter who's got his guard up high, looking over at 'the Bear' " -- his head periscopes over his hands -- "and you expose yourself to these terrible body blows. Drugs." His midsection abruptly gives under the imagined punch, but the hands stay up. "Debt." He buckles again. "The purchasing of America. Energy." It is Jesse Jackson's analysis of the gut dismay he finds in contemporary America. He is an ecumenical collector of dismays...
...sausages? How could you?" demands the husband. "I wouldn't want my entire career as a housewife judged on that one trade. You wouldn't want your entire career as a husband judged on those seven minutes in the bedroom last night, would you?" said Bush, delivering the punch line in falsetto...